Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time debate between Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democrat, SPD) and Christian ...

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IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would' never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich Merz, the opposition leader and front-runner, accused Scholz of leaving ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used his likely final statement in parliament before the election to intensify his attacks on ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his likely successor, Friedrich Merz, promised no collaboration with the extreme right on ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.